within the Hanafi school were carefully reproduced in the texts of generations
of Hanafi jurists throughout the Islamic world. (Cf. Mullā Khusraw 1877:
128; al-Marghīnānī 1937: 903.)
47. See for example Sarakhsī 1970–79, 24: 156–84.
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48. Ahmed al-Mostari: 51b.
49. al-Mar
ghīnānī claimed that Muammad al-Shaybānī (d. 809), the celebrated
student of Abū anīfa, reported that this latter had said: “When 120 years have
passed from the day of his birth, we declare him to be dead.” al-Marghīnānī
says that some other Hanafi jurists held that this period should be 100 (Abū
Yūsuf) or 90 years. (Cf. al-Marghīnānī 1937: 905.)
50. Ahmed
al-Mostari: 52a. Osman Lavić has claimed that Mu‘īn al-Quāt was
a manual for judges composed by Muammad b. Sulaymān. Unfortunately,
no other information is available about this author. (Cf. Dobrača et al. 1996–
2004, 10: 445.)
51. Ahmed al-Mostari: 52b.
52. al-Mar
ghīnānī 1937: 903.
53. Ahmed al-Mostari: 52a.
54. al-Sarakhsī 1970–79, 21: 236.
55. al-Mar
ghīnānī 1937: 904.
56. Mālik b.
Anas 1989: 266.
57. While
Mālik b. Anas does not explain the circumstances that led ‘Umar b.
Khaāb to determine that the wife of a missing husband had to wait fours
years before she could begin the waiting period between two marriages, both
al-Sarakhsī and al-Marghīnānī claim that ‘Umar b. Khaāb determined that
the wife of a man who had been carried away from Medina by jinn s had to
wait for her husband for four years and then commence the waiting period of
a widow. (Cf. al-Marghīnānī 1937: 903–904; al-Sarakhsī 1972: 36–37.)
58. al-Shāfi‘ī
2001: 609; Ibn Qudāma 1986–90: 11: 245–46. Also, for the opinion
of Ibn anbal on this problem, see Spectorsky 1993: 113–14.
59. Zayla‘ī 1996: 717–18.
60. Ahmed
al-Mostari, al-Fatāwā al-Amadiyya al-Mūstāriyya
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61. The
stipulation of the amount of mahr was one of the main conditions for the
legality of a marriage contract. (See Schacht 1964: 163–64.)
62. Ahmed
al-Mostari, al-Fatāwā al-Amadiyya al-Mūstāriyya
2
63. T
ucker 1998: 84.
64. Ahmed
al-Mostari, al-Fatāwā al-Amadiyya al-Mūstāriyya, Gazi Husrev Beg
Library, Sarajevo, MS 2226: 13b, margin.
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anbul to
take up their cases to the highest legal institution in the Empire, the Imperial
Council. Most of the cases that Bosnian women brought to the attention of
the Imperial council were concerned with property. See
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Olga Augustinos is currently at work on a study of the representation of Greek
women in philhellenic literature during the Greek revolution. She holds a Ph.D. from
Indiana University, and has been a member of the Foreign Languages Department
at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of French Odysseys: Greece
in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era, which was
awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, and has contributed chapters to
works on the interactions between Hellenism and philhellenism.
Patricia Fann Bouteneff is corporate archivist and editor at Citigroup. She
received her D.Phil. from the sub-faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek at
Oxford University, and was visiting scholar in the Department of Folklore at the
University of Pennsyl
vania. Her principle research interests are Pontic Greek
folklore, seventeenth-century European cabinets of curiosity, and the history of
financial services. Her publications include Exiles on Stage: The Modern Pontic
Theater of Greece and “Greek Folktales from Imera, Pontos,” as well as articles
on the Pontic Greek theater in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of
Refugee Studies, and Modern Greek Studies Yearbook.
Amila Buturović is Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies
and the Noor Fellow in Islamic Studies at York University (Toronto), where she
teaches courses in Islamic literatures, the Qur’an and its interpretations, identities
and cultures in the Balkans, and world religions. Her research interests focus on
the intersections of religion and literature, especially in the context of Islamic
cultures in the Balkans, and on Islamic intellectual history. She is also interested in
the theories and practice of translation. Her publications include articles and essays
on these subjects and a monograph entitled Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombstones,
Landscape and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar. She is currently
working on an anthology of Balkan short stories in English translation.
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Kerima Filan is Professor of modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and Linguistics
in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Sarajevo. She holds a
M.A. from the University of Belgrade in comparative Turkish and Serbo-Croatian
linguistics, and a Ph.D. from Ankara University in Ottoman Turkish linguistics.
She has also served as Visiting Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of
Zagreb and of Turkish language and literature at the University of Tuzla. Her main
areas of research include Ottoman Turkish in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
Bosnia, linguistic loans between Bosnian and Turkish, and the cultural history of
Bosnia. Her recent publications include a series of articles on the language of Mula
Mustafa Bašeskija’s chronicle in Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju and the award-
winning translation into Bosnian of Ferit Edgü’s A Season in Hakkâri.
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